Curling-iron heater.



No. 630,979. Patented'Aug. I5, I899. J. B. HOIT.

GURLING IRON HEATER.

(Application filed 10, 1898,)

No Model.)

.. m@t@vwv rim NITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JACOB R. HOIT, OF DES MOINES, IOlVA, ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS G. ORWIG, OF

' SAME PLACE.

CURLlNG-IRON HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 630,979, dated August 15, 1899.

Application filed October 10, 1898. Serial No. 693,197. (No model.)

T to whom it may concern: the same length as the body of the vessel and Be it known that I, JACOB R. HOIT, a citizen of a diameter adapted to admit curling-irons. of the United States of America, residing at Each end of each receiver has a downward Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State integral projection D, adapted to be pivotally of Iowa, have inventedanew and useful Ourlattached to lugs D formed on or fixed to the 55 ing-Iron Heater, of which the following is a top and ends of the vessel. They are also specification. adapted in shape to engage the top of the ves The object of my invention is to facilitate sel, as shown in Fig. 2 and as required, to reheating curling-irons and water by means of tain the receiver elevated sufficiently to allow a lamp adapted to protect such irons from dia cup to be supported thereon and directly 6o rect contact with the flame and also adapted over the wicks in the burners or tubes B.

to support irons, 850., securely over the lamp- In the modified form shown in Figs. 3 and burners and in a position contacting with the 4: the two receivers at the top of the device flame and heat rising from the burners. are made of one single piece of sheet metal I 5 My invention consists in the construction, (designated as F)and capable of movingto one 65 arrangement, and combination of the adj ustside to be lowered, but not adapted for supable parts of the device with a small vessel porting a cup above the flames. adapted to contain alcohol or oil, as herein- The tubular top part is adapted to retain after set forth, pointed out in my claims, and two curling-irons and has right-angled exten- 2o iliustrated in the accompanying drawings, in sions at its ends pivotally conhected with the 70 whichvessel and is thereby also adapted to serve Figure 1 is a perspective View of the device, as a handle to the vessel. showing a curling-iron in position as required In practical operation, curling-irons are to heat it. Fig. 2 is an end view showing the placed in the tubes or receivers, as shown in adjustable curling-iron holders in position as Fig. 1, to be heated therein without being 75 required to support a small vessel above the smoked and blackened by the products of burners. Their normal positions are indicombustion. To heat water in a cup, the cated by dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a side view tubes are placed in position as shown in Fig. of a modified form of the device, and Fig. 4 2 and a cup containing water placed thereon.

0 is a vertical transverse sectional view through Vhen not in use, these tubes or receivers will So the line 00 0c of Fig. 8. serve as a handle.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Having thus described my invention, what the reference-letterA is used to designate the I claim as new therein, and desire to secure vessel for retaining oil. It may be made of byLetters Patent of the United States thereany suitable size, shape, or material. Preffor, is 85 erably, however, it is made of sheet metal in 1. Adevice for heating curling-irons,water, the shape shown. &c., comprising a suitable vessel to contain B B designate tubes for receiving wicks. alcohol and provided with one or more burn- They are located on the opposite sides of the ers or tubes for wicks and a handle consisting 4o transverse center of the vessel and of the orof an open-ended tube having right-angled 9o dinary kind used in lamps. extensions at its ends pivotally connected B are wicks extended through the tubes with the vessel and adapted to support a curlinto the vessel and in contact with the vol'aing-iron in the mannerset forth, for the purtile combustible liquid therein. poses stated.

B are caps adapted to cover and protect 2. A curling-iron heater comprising a ves- 5 the wicks when not in use and to prevent the sel having tubes or burners at its top, two evaporation of the liquid and the escape of mating handles, consisting of tubes adapted gas. to admit curling-irons to support them over 0 O designate open-ended tubular receivthe burners and provided with downward exers, made of sheet metal and of approximately tensions pivoted to the vessel and said exten- 10o sions shaped to engage the top of the vessel D on the vessel and adapted in shape to rest when turned into horizontal positions, for the upon the top of the vessel in the manner set purposes stated. forth for the purposes stated.

3. A curling-iron heater, &c., consisting of JACOB .R. HOIT; 5 the vessel A having tubes or burners B at its Witnesses:

top, two tubular receivers 0 having downward R. H. ORWIG,

projections D pivot-ally connected with lugs THOMAS G. ORWIG. 

